12-06-2025

UnderhillFest 2025 Is Underway in Montenegro

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    UnderhillFest 2025 Is Underway in Montenegro source: UnderHill Fest

    PODGORICA: The 16th edition of the UnderhillFest international documentary film festival opened on 11 June 2025, in the Njegošev park in Podgorica, with the premiere of the long documentary Vud, You Won / Vude, ti si pobijedio directed by Senad Šahmanović and supported by the Film Centre of Montenegro.

    The festival’s artistic director Vuk Perović selected 27 documentaries, divided into four programme selections: international, regional, out-of-competition and the special selection of short documentaries 7 Short, which includes three domestic films.

    The festival ends on 19 June with the closing ceremony, followed by the screening of the Croatian/Italian/Slovenian Fiume o morte! by Igor Bezinović, which was selected for the Regional programme.

    The festival’s film screenings are complemented with concerts, such as the awaited concert by Zoran Predin, one of the most important singer-songwriters from former Yugoslavia.

    The 16th UnderhillFest is supported by the Capital City of Podgorica, Sports Facilities Podgorica, the Film Centre of Montenegro, Crossmedia agency, Galama Art, Petrović Njegoš Foundation, Center for Women's Rights, National Library "Radosav Ljumović", Culture club, Gostiona 1928, Hotel Boja turs, Gorenje, Marienplatz, ATOMIC, Narwhal, EURO UNIT, Nikšićko pivo, Jameson, Future Sounds production, European Youth Card, Work Room and MX Golbi.

    International Selection:

    Letter from Wolf Street / Listy z Wilczek (Poland, Germany)
    Directed by Arjun Talwar 

    The Helsinki Effect (Finland)
    Directed by Arthur Franck

    Hacking Hate (Sweden, Denmark, Norway)
    Directed by Simon Klose

    Bye Bye Tiberias (France, Palestine, Belgium, Qatar)
    Directed by Lina Soualem

    Possibility of Paradise / Mogućnost raja (Serbia, Sweden)
    Directed by Mladen Kovačević

    Flophouse America (Norway, the Netherlands)
    Directed by Monica Strømdahl

    The Songs of Slow Burning Earth (Ukraine, Denmark, Sweden, France)
    Directed by Olga Zhurba

    Regional Programme:

    Vud, You Won / Vude, ti si pobijedio (Montenegro, Croatia, Serbia)
    Directed by Senad Šahmanović

    Praslovan (Slovenia, Croatia)
    Directed by Slobodan Maksimović

    Learning to Walk 2 / Škola hodanja 2 (Croatia)
    Directed by Jelena Novaković

    Grandpa Guru (Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
    Directed by Silvio Mirošničenko

    At the Door of the House Who Will Come Knocking?  / Ko će pokucati na vrata mog doma (Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
    Directed by Maja Novaković

    Funk You (Croatia, Montenegro)
    Directed by Franko Dujmić

    Our Children / Naša djeca (Croatia)
    Directed by Silvestar Kolbas
     
    Soil and Wings / Krilo i tlo (Serbia, North Macedonia)
    Directed by Stefan Malešević
     
    Blum: Masters of Their Own Destiny / Blum – gospodari svoje budućnosti (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
    Directed by Jasmila Žbanić
     
    The Mountain Won’t Move / Planina se neće pomjeriti (Slovenia, North Macedonia, France)
    Directed by Petra Seliškar
     
    Fiume o morte! (Croatia, Italy, Slovenia)
    Directed by Igor Bezinović